That, I think, is the rule in business... Oligarchs want it, or else. Not that I'd know personally, but I watch intensely. That sounded stalkerish... Oh well. Sometimes I hear a one liner that sticks in my head forever - one such one liner was : "the CIA is the best business school in the world." Strikes true. Take over, one way or another. Not trying to point the finger at them in particular. I think a country either has a formalized mafia or they have some other country's mafia, in which case they're not a sovereign country. The only real difference between countries is how far along they are in stealing everything in the country. In the west, nobody owns anything - we're the new commies. That's because the oligarchs have stolen everything. When there's nothing left to steal, they steal lives. In some places you get outright genocides ; in the west, our genocide is the falling population, which is because most people can't afford to live. Hard genocide, soft genocide - its genocide either way. Democracy should have protected us from organized crime - instead it became the crime. Survival - or surviving to the degree of affording a family - depends on getting to a place where the mafia hasn't stolen the whole country yet.